Hi,
I'm looking for an app that will parse the text and recognize phone numbers (in text messages, email, calendar, and web browsing) and be able to highlight that number and then be able to one click call.
Are there any existing apps?
that would be great. like the windows mobile smartphones without touchscreen do.
i would really appreciate something like that!
yes that would be great i've been looking for somethingnlike hat. it woyld cery useful
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isn't anyone goung to complain about how un-ergonomic the built-in messaging client is? sure you can text with one hand with intellipad, and search for contacts with one hand using .mobile contacts, but what about forwarding? reading while replying?
i like intellipad, but i think it's still too small for rapid thumb-texting. also, don't you wish you can read the message you are replying to? or type nicknames in the to: field and then when you press send it looks up nicknames and replaces them with phone numbers?
don't you miss being able to send SMS on a scheduled date and time?
i don't think there is an app out there that does this. phoneplus is close, .mobile contacts solves some of the problems. but for the rest, let's develop one! does crossfire ring a bell?
I am wondering if anybody knows of a good Speech to Text Program I can use on my mogul. What I am looking to do is be able to reply to text messages or emails while driving. Using a bluetooth headset would be the best way, i just want to be able to touch reply and speak the text, the touch send and not have to type on the keyboard while driving. Any suggestions appreciated. Thank you for your responses in advance.
Sprint Mogul
WM 6.1
Jott is a pretty neat service, with the basic idea being that you can call a phone number, dictate a message, and have it sent wherever you want (SMS, email, blog, etc.):
http://jott.com
I believe they are still using human transcribers, believe it or not, rather than speech-to-text software. I suppose the benefits & drawbacks of that are debatable. It doesn't quite nail your original request, in that it's not integrated into your phone (so you couldn't hit "reply" from there) -- so that may be a deal-breaker for you. But, it's free and probably worth a try. And they keep adding lots of new features, such as "Jott Links" to things like Google Calendar:
http://jott.com/jott/jott-links.html
and going the other direction, with the text-to-speech functionality of "Jott Feeds":
http://jott.com/jott/feeds.html
(or even have your Gmail read to you if you like):
http://lifehacker.com/394839/get-your-gmail-feed-read-to-you-by-phone
Hi everyone,
if I search for a name via the dial numbers in the phone dialog (after pressing green dial button) it works fine to dial the numbers of the persons I found. But if I press the left or right key to switch between home or phone number, mail or sms, I'm not able to create SMS or mails out of this window. On my old htc artemis with wm6 but without touchFlo it worked fine and it is much more useful than going to contacts overview because of the easy searching.
Hope you understand what I try to say
Thanks for any help, Tobi
You are right. However, once name is selected (with <m>) you can tap "Menu" - "Send Text Message" to send SMS.
Hi,
You can search your contact on the sms or email screen. At the line of the phone number, you write the first words of your contact and you have the list of your repertory.
You have only to choose at which of them you want to send an sms. I think it's easiest like this !
Thanks for both of the answers
@azahidi: I found this out yesterday, you're right thats an option, but not an advance I think, menu is too inconvenient for finger control. the greatest problem is, that if I select a contact with my finger, the phone directly calls it insteat of just selecting it and giving me further options.
@pinou13: that's great, I didn't know this yet, I think that solves my problem in a way
But nevertheless, it would be great, if one could set that if I click on the contact in the dial window, instead of directly dealing the number, showing the same overview (call cell phone, call home, write mail, write sms) from the contacts window.
If someone know a solution to do so, please post it, but so far it's an alternative to do it via sms or mail menu.
Thanks, Tobi
You can solve your problem with the Spb Mobile Shell. It is very finger-friendly to use, I am happy with it, but it has to be paid after 14 days free trial. For details: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/mobileshell/
Hm, looks great, but that's around 10% of the phones costs. I prefer to use freeware and I rather like touchFlo, but not in that one little thing
Hi guys, I've just moved over from iphone so still finding my feet with android.
For the most part android is far superior but the contact side of things is still bugging me. This is what I want to be able to do:
1. Have my call log as calls only, not texts. I know you can change this to view calls received, dialled etc, but it soons defaults back and shows everything. I just want my log to have dialled and received and nothing else? I'm sure i've read somewhere on the net that this was possible on the SGS through a hack??
2. I want to set up a favourites list of say best mate, gf, work etc and just be able to press their name and it dials there number, not opens another window that shows history, text option, dial option video call option, i.e. just direct dial. I also would like this to be the first screen that opens when I press my phone icon on the dock??
I've set my gf up on my desktop as a direct dial shortcut, but I don't want to be doing that for everyone. I've got a load of contacts but maybe only dial 10 at most on a regular basis.
are there any hacks or thrid party dialers that do this??
Cheers
Lee
landerson07 said:
Hi guys, I've just moved over from iphone so still finding my feet with android.
For the most part android is far superior but the contact side of things is still bugging me. This is what I want to be able to do:
1. Have my call log as calls only, not texts. I know you can change this to view calls received, dialled etc, but it soons defaults back and shows everything. I just want my log to have dialled and received and nothing else? I'm sure i've read somewhere on the net that this was possible on the SGS through a hack??
2. I want to set up a favourites list of say best mate, gf, work etc and just be able to press their name and it dials there number, not opens another window that shows history, text option, dial option video call option, i.e. just direct dial. I also would like this to be the first screen that opens when I press my phone icon on the dock??
I've set my gf up on my desktop as a direct dial shortcut, but I don't want to be doing that for everyone. I've got a load of contacts but maybe only dial 10 at most on a regular basis.
are there any hacks or thrid party dialers that do this??
Cheers
Lee
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I can help you with #2. Just swipe right on your favorite and you call that favorite immediately. Swipe left to immediately send a message.
landerson07 said:
Hi guys, I've just moved over from iphone so still finding my feet with android.
For the most part android is far superior but the contact side of things is still bugging me. This is what I want to be able to do:
1. Have my call log as calls only, not texts. I know you can change this to view calls received, dialled etc, but it soons defaults back and shows everything. I just want my log to have dialled and received and nothing else? I'm sure i've read somewhere on the net that this was possible on the SGS through a hack??
2. I want to set up a favourites list of say best mate, gf, work etc and just be able to press their name and it dials there number, not opens another window that shows history, text option, dial option video call option, i.e. just direct dial. I also would like this to be the first screen that opens when I press my phone icon on the dock??
I've set my gf up on my desktop as a direct dial shortcut, but I don't want to be doing that for everyone. I've got a load of contacts but maybe only dial 10 at most on a regular basis.
are there any hacks or thrid party dialers that do this??
Cheers
Lee
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hmmm, can't say i can see a way around No.1, other than using a new dialer/contacts app such as Go Contacts or Dialer One etc..
must say, i actually quite like the comprehensive log, coming from Sense and Stock roms with calls only, i like having it all in one place...
Dialer One would be my choice, but only as i used it on CM7 on my Hero for its smart dial feature... can't comment on Go Contacts
hope this helps
Dickie
I use loads off texts a day so within 10 mins of dialling someone their details are long gone
I'll check out Go Contacts and Dialer One though, thanks for the recommendations
This is a Samsung thing, regular android does not put texts with the call log. I don't think I'd like them to be combined like that.
it is the right thing to do
RogerPodacter said:
This is a Samsung thing, regular android does not put texts with the call log. I don't think I'd like them to be combined like that.
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I like them combined. There again, there could be an option to control it.
Go Contacts is just the ticket
Thanks guys, much better now
On my Nexus 4, when I'm creating a text message, how do I insert a phone number from one of my existing contacts into the text message. I could do this on all my old Nokia or Samsung phones (Non smart phones) but can't see how to do it.
Also, is it possible to send one text to more than one contact at the same time. Or at the least can I foward an existing text message to another contact? Again i could do this on my old phones but can't see how to do it on this one
It just seems that the texting functionality on this phone is really basic. Not sure if I can use an app which has more functionality?
Thx
jimmybog said:
On my Nexus 4, when I'm creating a text message, how do I insert a phone number from one of my existing contacts into the text message. I could do this on all my old Nokia or Samsung phones (Non smart phones) but can't see how to do it.
Also, is it possible to send one text to more than one contact at the same time. Or at the least can I foward an existing text message to another contact? Again i could do this on my old phones but can't see how to do it on this one
It just seems that the texting functionality on this phone is really basic. Not sure if I can use an app which has more functionality?
Thx
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For your first item, I'm not sure that I'm completely understanding. If you start typing a person's name or phone number into the To field it will search through your contacts and pull up any matches. Is that not what you're looking for?
To send a text to more than one person, click back into the To field and then start typing again to bring up another contact. You can also forward and existing message by longpressing (press and hold) on the message and tapping on Forward.
If that doesn't meet your needs, there are plenty of alternative SMS apps. GoSMS, Handcent, etc... provide some extra functionality.
Open your contacts.
Find the one you want the number for.
Long press on the tel number
choose copy to clipboard
Now in the messaging app just long press in the text box where it's inserting what you write
paste
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